Soil and Landscape Grid National Soil Attribute Maps - Soil Depth (3" resolution) - Release 2 

This is Version 2 of the Australian Soil Depth product of the Soil and Landscape Grid of Australia.

It supersedes the Release 1 product that can be found at https://doi.org/10.4225/08/546F540FE10AA

The map gives a modelled estimate of the spatial distribution of soil depth in soils across Australia.

The Soil and Landscape Grid of Australia has produced a range of digital soil attribute products. Each product contains six digital soil attribute maps, and their upper and lower confidence limits, representing the soil attribute at six depths: 0-5 cm, 5-15 cm, 15-30 cm, 30-60 cm, 60-100 cm and 100-200 cm. These depths are consistent with the specifications of the GlobalSoilMap.net project - GlobalSoilMaps. The digital soil attribute maps are in raster format at a resolution of 3 arc sec (~90 x 90 m pixels).
Detailed information about the Soil and Landscape Grid of Australia can be found at - SLGA

• Attribute Definition: Depth of soil profile (A & B horizons);
• Units: metres;
• Period (temporal coverage; approximately): 1950-2021;
• Spatial resolution: 3 arc seconds (approx 90 m);
• Total number of gridded maps for this attribute: 18;
• Number of pixels with coverage per layer: 2007M (49200 * 40800);
• Data license : Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY);
• Target data standard: GlobalSoilMap specifications;
• Format: Cloud Optimised GeoTIFF;

 

We at TERN acknowledge the Traditional Owners and Custodians throughout Australia, New Zealand and all nations. We honour their profound connections to land, water, biodiversity and culture and pay our respects to their Elders past, present and emerging.
This work was jointly funded by CSIRO, Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network (TERN) and the Australian Government through the National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy (NCRIS).
We are grateful to the custodians of the soil site data in each state and territory for providing access to the soil site data, and all of the organisations listed as collaborating agencies for their significant contributions to the project and its outcomes. 

The map gives a modelled estimate of the spatial distribution of soil depth across Australia.
The aim is to operate an open national capability that provides access to verified, science-quality land surface dynamics data and soils information layers, plus high-end data analytics tools that integrated with other TERN observations can meet the needs of ecosystem researchers and actionable information for policy makers and natural resource managers. 

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